[Qgis-developer] QGIS menu item

[Anita Graser]

Hi Nathan,

I understand what you are trying to achieve and it makes sense to me.

On the other hand, almost all applications start with with File / Project
as the first menu entry. So QGIS would break an established convention.

Best wishes,
Anita




On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 4:11 AM, Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I would like to propose a new QGIS menu item that in the menu before the
> Project item.  This menu item will contain all the stuff in the Settings
> Menu, Exit QGIS, and some of the stuff from the Help menu like About
>
> Motivation:  A lot of application have a "Application" menu with
> application-wide settings, etc . I think this would make it clear that
> anything in this menu is related to the application itself and not the
> project.  Having a Settings menu just floating in the middle of the menu
> bar seems strange to me now.
>
> Example
>
> [image: Inline image 1]
>
> Thoughts?
>
> - Nathan
>
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